20 Gallon Plant Tank

Recently I've stopped using the Red Sea Co2 pump because it would do a lousy job of spitting out the Co2 in small enough sized bubbles. Instead now the Co2 bubbles are released into the tank through one of these (only the one I have is plastic and made by Eheim). These don't really work so well with a make shift sugar +yeast method of making c02 because the pressure is never consistent like it would be if you had an actual compressed co2 tank. So I bought a regular cheap little pump/miniature 5 gallon filter for 15$ and put the diffuser underneath it, so now the bubbles collect in the filter and spit out much smaller and all over the tank.

Mike also adopted this method and it's working out for him, he skipped the diffuser part and hooks up his tank directly into the filter and it does the trick as well.

That + the Poor Man's Dupla Drops have been keeping everything in my tank growing really well.

Also, Mike had borrowed back his Siamese Algae Eater and it turns out he was keeping the algae in my tank in check, because since he left a lot of light hair algae was growing everywhere. He's back in my tank now and in 2 days he cleaned it all up again...

And the Clown Loach I have has been doing a really good job controlling the baby snail population, and now the plants aren't being chewed up anymore.

Now, I have 3 Leopard Danios, 14 Cardinal Tetras, 1 Kuli Loach, 1 Clown Loach, 5 Amano Shrimp (maybe, hard to count), 1 Siamese Algae Eater, and 1 Peacock Gudgeon

Also, I'm using 3 T5 Light fixtures now which brings me up to 84 Watts, 4.2W/Gallon.

I think now that its finally at peace, I'm going to start trying some new things out and see what happens.